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MrBeast’s highly anticipated Beast Land is finally open, marking the YouTuber’s boldest leap yet from online entertainment to real-world experiences. The 45-day pop-up theme park, located in Riyadh as part of Riyadh Season 2025, brings his famous YouTube challenges to life through large-scale attractions, obstacle courses, and adrenaline-pumping rides. Open from November 13 to December…

Airlines are optimistic they can resume normal operations just a few days after the government lifts its order to cut some flights at 40 busy airports, but it’s not clear how soon that will happen even though the U.S. government shutdown is over. The Federal Aviation Administration did announce Wednesday night that airlines won’t have…

Canada is taking “positive” steps to boost its defence spending and military presence in Europe, but Canadians themselves need to take collective responsibility toward national security to counter growing threats from nations like Russia, Latvia’s envoy says. In an interview with Global News in Vancouver, Kaspars Ozoliņš, Latvia’s ambassador to Canada, said “unfriendly countries” are…

Cafe owner Merat Behnam rides her yellow scooter through Tehran, defying traffic rules and social restrictions/Image: AP In Tehran’s dense traffic, where millions of cars and motorbikes jostle daily for space, a quiet transformation is taking shape. Women, long excluded from the city’s motorbike culture by regulation and taboo, are beginning to ride for themselves,…

U.S. President Donald Trump signed a government funding bill Wednesday night, ending a record 43-day shutdown that caused financial stress for federal workers who went without paychecks, stranded scores of travelers at airports and generated long lines at some food banks. The shutdown magnified partisan divisions in Washington as Trump took unprecedented unilateral actions —…

Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Terrace, B.C., Thursday to announce the next batch of major projects the government is submitting for possible fast-track approval. A senior Ontario government source tells The Canadian Press the Crawford Nickel Project will be among the projects Carney announces he is forwarding to the new Major Projects Office. Ontario…

UAE launches first private astronaut training centre 2025 / Image source: File A new private human spaceflight training centre is set to open in the UAE, the region’s first licensed private facility focused on astronaut readiness, space medicine and analogue mission simulations. The project is a public-private push to build local capability, create specialist jobs…

House lawmakers will make a long-awaited return to the nation’s capital on Wednesday after nearly eight weeks away to potentially put an end to the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history. The House is scheduled to take up a bill to reopen the government that the Senate passed on Monday night. U.S. President Donald Trump…

By Alessia Passafiume The Canadian Press Posted November 12, 2025 12:41 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canada’s premiers say infrastructure investments and the state of U.S.-Canada trade negotiations are high on their agenda for an upcoming meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney. Carney will host a virtual meeting…

The UAE just made Digital Dirham equal to paper money / Image source: File The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) announced a landmark financial ruling this week, confirming the Digital Dirham has been officially designated as full legal tender, placing the nation’s e-currency entirely par with physical cash. Issued under the authority of the…